UPDATED at 2:30 p.m. July 23 A U.S. tourist had his right leg amputated Friday afternoon after a crocodile attacked him near the Playa Grande estuary in Tamarindo, Guanacaste. The…
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Some 11,000 crocodiles that have gone unfed for almost a month -- because their Honduran owners had their assets frozen due to U.S. accusations they laundered…
SAN MANUEL, Honduras -- More than 10,000 Honduras crocodiles are starving to death on a farm after the wealthy family owning them had their assets frozen because of…
Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits. So, it seems, do crocodiles. According to a new study published this month in the Journal of Experimental Biology, crocodiles sleep with one…
Four years ago today Gilberto Shedden lost his best friend. Shedden, or Chito as he is better known in his hometown of Siquirres, first met his friend…
Costa Rica's Central Pacific Conservation Area (ACOPAC) has seen a decrease by up to 90 percent in complaints related to tourists feeding or approaching crocodiles, the Environment Ministry’s National System of…
A Tamarindo crocodile suspected of attacking a surfer will remain in its home in the estuary on Playa Grande, officials from Costa Rica's National Park Service (SINAC) say. While locals…
On the first day of his surf trip in Tamarindo March 6, Montreal native Val Muscalu was waiting his turn for a wave when suddenly he was…
[caption id="attachment_59788" align="alignright" width="258"] (Courtesy Public Security Ministry)[/caption] Nothing like walking out on to your front porch in the morning and finding a crocodile staring back at…
In Pre-Amazonian Peru, the crocodile was king. Seven species of crocodile, to be precise. That's more species of crocodile than have ever been found co-existing in one…
